Frogspawn will not open up

[Bpoff123]

Hello everyone, I recently bought a frogspawn from LFS. He has been in the tank for 3 days and has not opened up fully, just very partially extended polyps. He is in the top 1/3 of the tank where the PAR is about 172. Not alot of flow on him and he does not seem to want to fully open up. This is my first frogspawn so I'm not sure if this is a normal thing for them. All the other corals in the tank are doing fine. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. I'm pretty new to the coral side of things.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Was it more open at the lfs? How long has your tank been running? Can you post all of your parameters?

 

[Yates273]

I usually start everything low and adjust as they adapt. Is it getting too much flow? What are your water parameters?

 

[Bpoff123]

Tank has been running a little over 6 months water and yes it was fully extended at LFS. Parameters are
Ph 8.2
Ammonia 0.0
Nitrite 0.0
Nitrate between 0 and 5 ppm
Phosphate 0.2
Salinity 1.024
Temp 77

 

[Bpoff123]

I usually start everything low and adjust as they adapt. Is it getting too much flow? What are your water parameters?

It is currently in the lowest flow spot of the tank but I can try and make some moves to the flow to see if it helps

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Do you have other corals? How are they? It does seem like your Po4 and nitrates are out of balance. And I like my salinity a little higher (but 1.024 isn't bad)

 

[Uncle99]

If your waters on point, I would do nothing but let it get comfortable. 3 days, not unusual. Give it a week or so.

 

[Bpoff123]

Do you have other corals? How are they? It does seem like your Po4 and nitrates are out of balance. And I like my salinity a little higher (but 1.024 isn't bad)

What about my Po4 and nitrates is out of balance? And how would you recommend fixing that. Also yes I have a torch, cabbage leather, duncans, mushrooms, zoanthids, and kenya tree all of which are doing well

 

[Bpoff123]

It is currently in the lowest flow spot of the tank but I can try and make some moves to the flow to see if it helps

The flow is currently just enough to sway what little bit of polyps are extended. Lightly sway

 

[Pistol Peet]

Make sure the flow is not direct strong flow just enough for the pollups to sway they don't fully open up if the flow is to strong....also make sure u don't have shrimp digging in it for food.

 

[Bpoff123]

Make sure the flow is not direct strong flow just enough for the pollups to sway they don't fully open up if the flow is to strong....also make sure u don't have shrimp digging in it for food.

Yeah the little bit of polyp that is extended is swaying slightly but not strong at all. I did see the peppermint shrimp climb on it during feeding time but that is the first time I have seen the shrimp near it since it has been in the tank

 

[Bpoff123]

Yeah the little bit of polyp that is extended is swaying slightly but not strong at all. I did see the peppermint shrimp climb on it during feeding time but that is the first time I have seen the shrimp near it since it has been in the tank

Do you think it would be okay to turn my powerheads off overnight and just leave my return pump on, just to see if it will open up and get comfy in the new tank?

 

[Yates273]

Nah I would leave powerheads on. Give it time to adjust and it will open. Tank needs some kind of flow and from what your saying it is getting a little flow which is better than no flow at all. To raise your nitrates just feed a little more. You don’t want 0 nitrates.

 

[RVA REEF]

what did you use to measure par? I would move it to the sandbed

 

[Bpoff123]

Nah I would leave powerheads on. Give it time to adjust and it will open. Tank needs some kind of flow and from what your saying it is getting a little flow which is better than no flow at all. To raise your nitrates just feed a little more. You don’t want 0 nitrates.

Yeah I have increased feedings couple weeks ago, and have not been running my skimmer but it has not helped raise nitrates. I think my refugium is knocking it all out.

 

[Bpoff123]

what did you use to measure par? I would move it to the sandbed

I have not measured it myself but this was posted on here a little while back from a guy who took the PAR measurments. I have the exact same tank with the same stock lights so I have been using this a reference

 

[reefiniteasy]

When I first got my frog, maybe almost 2 years ago, I don’t remember, it started down around 60-70. I think it maxes out now where the top of the frog is in 130ish-150ish. 170 could be too much but again, every tank and every coral is different.

 

[fuelman]

I would lower it down in the tank. I agree with the others that par is to high for frogspawn. I have 6 in my 240dt & all are in the 90-110 par range 170ish is kinda high, I'm not saying it can't be done. But they typically don't like that much light.

 

[Bpoff123]

I will give it a try and lower it some in the tank and see how it does. This forum is awesome. Thank you all for the advice!